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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), The Way of All Flesh, Chapter 77
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), Notebooks, 1912
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)

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